The Boxer Rebellion

What's the use in my advice that you just turn down?
Swaying to a serenade, you never hear a sound
But I know you know now
Generate the false alarms
The verdict: counterfeit
Flashing lights to bring you back from who you're running with
But I know you know now
Tell me why are you leaving us
Moving to a caged mistake
Expression isolates
Owing up for deals you struck
For deals you can't replace
But I know you know now
And you can't say no
You can't say
And you can't say no
You can't
You can't say
Tell me why are you leaving us
(Why'd you want to leave so bad?)

Rip up the proof, rip up the proof
Rip up the proof before the damage is done
Damage is done, damage is done, damage is
Don't stop talking when no one's listening
What you want, what you want, what you want
Red eyes are worn thin
You're thrown off the deep end
Gone under, gone under
You know your place
Look for the quick escape
You know your place
Look for the quick escape
Rip up the proof, rip up the proof
Rip up the proof before the damage is done
Damage is done, damage is done, damage is
Judgment your false sense
You go on the defense
You don't want, you don't want
You know your place
Look for the quick escape
You know your place
Look for the quick escape
Move on [repeat]

I don't wanna say
If it goes away
And I don't wanna try
You don't have to lie

And I don't think I said
What I should have said
I never caught you out
Though I had my doubts

Wait
When there's nothing left to waste
On a promise I can make
You don't want no one this way
Wait

And I don't see inside
Where you try to hide
And I don't wanna do
What you asked me to

Wait
When there's nothing left to waste
On a promise I can make
You don't want no one this way
Wait

We see each other from the corners of the room
I think that when this mess is over
Never make a move
When all I see is broken down to every size
I will remember how I got here
Love in every eye
I don't remember if the rest are ever good enough
And I don't remember if the rest will ever mean as much

And I don't wanna say
If it goes away
And I don't wanna try
You don't have to lie

What the rest did
I was average
But I dont mind
Drawn on two sides without disguise.
But I dont mind
But I spit fire on lovers and liars
And you, you dont believe me
And I, I find it easy
Easy
You're recruited
Head diluted through a glass eye
Dreams in fiction
Lost religion
But I dont mind
Cause I spit fire on lovers and liars
And you, you dont believe me
And I, I find it easy
Easy
Easy
What the rest did
I was average
But I dont mind
Runs on no sleep
Drawn to defeat
But I dont mind
And I, I spit fire on lovers and liars
And you, you dont deceive me
And I, I find it easy
Easy

Misplaced
Given chances you won't take
Shy away from the heart ache
Just a means to an end

Your quick fix
In the ring of the conflict
With nothing to work with
And nothing in mind

And then
We'll rise
With fire in our eyes
And take you by surprise
Make up, decieve
a voice to recieve
A light that never leaves

Slow right down

Lost love
With little to speak of
These feelings of bad blood
Must go quickly away

Your loose ends
Realising your true friends
In a war that no one wins
Let the sleeping dogs lie

Breached in straight lines
Asked to stop
Tunnel vision
Wasted up
We got lost
We found ourselves
Surrounded by things
Getting closer
All around us
Blinding lights began to set fire to our minds
Long directions mixing up
Points of reference bound and stuck
Talks to nothing falls apart
Constant questions from the start
We got lost
We found ourselves
Surrounded by things
Getting closer
All around us
Blinding lights began to set fire to our minds
I don't want to be myself
What's done is done
What's done is done to me
What's done is done
What's done is done because
We got lost
We found ourselves
Surrounded by things
Getting closer
All around us
Blinding lights began to set fire to our minds

Look brave, look brave, my innocent
Don't talk, these walls are thin
Shield your ears
Shield your ears from your vertigo
Won't hear us roam 'round here again
Just stay where you are
Don't start, don't start
So here we are now
Misguided, misguided casualty
Always more concerned about TV
Take a break, take a break in luxury
Satisfaction forever guaranteed
Just stay where you are
Don't start, don't start
So here we are now

Lost the plot
Without regard or thought
Never getting caught
Never your own
Endless threats
From a nervous wreck
Showing no regrets
Never alone
Forces, dark forces are everywhere
They won't stop
They won't stop till you're here
Sly remarks
A reaction starts
When things fall apart
Past any doubt
Well aware
A naive grudge to bear
A deadlocked affair
With our without
Forces, dark forces are everywhere
They won't stop
They won't stop till you're here
Don't save yourself for someone else
These things I say are meant to prove this weight I have will fall from view

I am waiting in a world you don't want
Suffocating by an endless weak spot
Please know, up here,
My hands are tied up too from

All I can see
Makes it hard for me
The last one to say
Good son
One more day

You know I am here, but I am losing
Faith in what I see you celebrating
I know, up here,
I'll be proven guilty

All I can see
Makes it hard for me
The last one to say
Good son
One more day

All I can see
Makes it hard for me
The last one to say
Good son
One more day

Surface, take to the breeze
Offhand misdeeds
Prudent motherly eye has passed me by
Build on all of your guards
Hopeless die hard
Crawling low on all fours
Resolve my scores
Vacant taste in your mouth
Deuces, fallout
Silent silhouette
You give, you get
Triggered break to the head
We've been misled
Keep up fast as you can
On false commands
And I don't want to believe
You put me up for release
But I just want some peace
For us